What Do You Want to Know About Microsoft Office?

Digits’ Jennifer Valentino-DeVries will be talking with Microsoft’s Stephen Elop, who manages the company’s Office software division, on May 12. Microsoft is set to release Office 2010 to businesses that day and will release the software to consumers this summer.

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The newest version of Office will include a host of Web features intended to compete with Internet-based applications such as word-processing and email from Google. The company also will offer a free, ad-supported online version of the software, according to the Journal’s Nick Wingfield. Microsoft will need to convince users not only that they should choose Office over the Web-based programs but also that the new version of Office has enough compelling features that they should upgrade from older editions.

Mr. Elop is president of Microsoft’s Business Division, which gets more than 90% of its sales from Office products and accounted for nearly 60% of the company’s operating income in its last fiscal year. He joined Microsoft in 2008 after serving as chief operating officer of Juniper Networks, as an executive at Adobe and as CEO of Macromedia.

Readers, what do you want to know about the new version of Office? Let us know in the comments. We’ll incorporate as many of your questions as we can in the interview.